When the Lavochkin La-5 first appeared over the Eastern Front, German pilots dismissed it as just another clumsy Soviet ...

Oskar Ziesig was just 20 when he entered a war that would define his life. As a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, he experienced ...

The job was deadly, with as many as a quarter of pilots dying each month in the worst periods. Money bought little in wartime. What the Luftwaffe could offer was glory. And glory, it turns out, is a ...

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Vol. 1, section 1. Birth of the Luftwaffe fighter force -- volume 1, section 2. The Spanish Civil War -- volume 1, section 3. Blitzkrieg and sitzkrieg : Poland and France, 1939-1940 -- volume 1, ...